Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
For those who work continuously on the border with the near future, it is very healthy to look back, to better understand the present and consider the possible future consequences of heightened consciousness. The →
1st to 4th April is held in various places in Helsinki (after a preliminary part already held in Stockholm), the 2004 edition of the festival PixelACHE annual event dedicated to the art electronic design and new →
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04.01.03 StreamingMedia, electronic art with IP and water.
StreamingMedia is defined by its author Jonah Brucker-Cohen as an ‘interactive data sculpture’ which implements the H2O/IP protocol, that →
The continuous change of static images can give the feeling kinetics of the eye needs to feel the movement, and this can be achieved gradually by applying the transformations, the more effective the longer linked to →
A ' revised edition of the original exhibition Future Cinema , held at ZKM, was held at the ICC in Tokyo to a year after its first realization. Starting from the observation that all the tools →
In the culture of video games the screenshot, that the frozen image of the screen when viewing a moment of the game, is conventionally proof of actual placing on the market of a new title, as →
The data layers that accumulate in the folds of the hard drives can be surprising how much a box of old clippings clippings and photos, reopened after a few years. A Portrait … Netochka Nezvanova of →
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16.12.03 Superbot, an army of pro-privacy bots.
With the mysterious slogan ‘machines will eat itself’, Franz Alken’s operation Superbot is one of the most remarkable in the →
L ' Helloworld Project by Johannes Gees ended Saturday 13 December, and consisted in projecting in four different places of the earth (Morro dois Irmaos in Rio de Janeiro, the United Nations building in New York, →
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18.12.03 The Classic II Exhibition, art for old Macs.
Obsolete hardware surely is a resource, both from an aesthetical, a sort of ‘vintage’, and from a historical →
